The new Pickaxe II book is a reality!

How huge??

-Rich

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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 04:02:12 +0900, Roeland Moors <roelandmoors@telenet.be> wrote:

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:30:17PM +0900, Florian Weber wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2004, at 14:34 Uhr, Victor Reyes wrote:
>
> >PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE stop enjoying it so much. I am
> >still waiting for my copy.
>
> i heard some people already got emails because of the pdf version.
> i didn't get anything yet.. is it pdf version officially out yet?
>

I recieved mine. The pdf is huge :slight_smile:

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Roeland

> i heard some people already got emails because of the pdf version.
> i didn't get anything yet.. is it pdf version officially out yet?

Yes. I have received a notification email this morning (Paris/GMT+1)
saying that my PDF download was ready, and indeed it was.

Same here, annoyingly I wasn't at home to download it till a little while ago :frowning:

One thing I hadn't realised till reading the preface was that Andy
wasn't directly involved in this edition.

Cheers to all involved in making the 2nd edition a reality!

Rob

Richard Lyman wrote:

How huge??

-Rich

Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great! :wink:

Thanks Dave and everyone who made this book possible.

Stephan

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... :))

Cheers

Dave

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On Oct 1, 2004, at 15:04, Stephan Kämper wrote:

Richard Lyman wrote:

How huge??
-Rich

Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great! :wink:

Oops, mine was 47Mb, I saved it wrong with gv.
Now it is a not so huge but great pdf :slight_smile:

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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 05:04:59AM +0900, Stephan Kämper wrote:

Richard Lyman wrote:
>How huge??
>
>-Rich
>

Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great! :wink:

--
Roeland

Dave Thomas wrote:

Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great! :wink:

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... :))

A backlog in shipping PDFs? That sounds like a big number of orders...

Happy rubying (and shipping) :slight_smile:

Stephan

Dave Thomas wrote:

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On Oct 1, 2004, at 15:04, Stephan Kämper wrote:

Richard Lyman wrote:

How huge??
-Rich

Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great! :wink:

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... :))

BTW, are there any plans for translations? To French, German, Japanese?

Happy rubying

Stephan (on page 51 and counting) :smiley:

* Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> [Oct 01, 2004 23:10]:

> Mine is 5.776.818 Bytes. And it's not only huge, it's also great!
> :wink:

Yeah - that's why we have a backlog... :))

I guess the size of your backlog (alt. the number of PDFs in total)
is a good indication of how much Ruby has grown; provided that you have
information regarding the first release. It'd only be a two-point
graph, still...
  nikolai

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I'm not sure: we asked ASCII in Japan (who translated the other Bookshelf books), and they weren't sure. They're concerned about the size.

Perhaps some requests from folks in Japan might help...

Cheers

Dave

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On Oct 1, 2004, at 17:30, Stephan Kämper wrote:

BTW, are there any plans for translations? To French, German, Japanese?